Your printer has the ability to print right to the bottom of
the sheet. You can disable the paper-out detector so that it
doesn’t stop the printer. This will allow you to print to the
end of the sheet, and even beyond if you are not careful. The
codes to control the paper-out detector, along with the other
codes that we have just looked at are in the following table.
Table 6-1
Some miscellaneous commands
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n Backspace, delete, and cancel text
Backspace (CHR$(8)) “backs up” the printhead so that you
can print two characters right on top of each other. Each time
your printer receives a backspace it moves the printhead one
character to the left, inste,ad of to the right. You can strike
over multiple letters by sending more than one backspace code.
Delete (CHR$( 127)) also “backs up” one character, but then
it “erases” the previous character (it’s erased from your printer’s
buffer, not from the paper).
Cancel text (CHR$(24)) deletes all the text in the print buffer;
that is, in the line before the delete text command. Since your
printer prints one line of text at a time, only that line will be
deleted.